Letter: Men have made zero progress

OPINION: I refer to Women prevented from taking part in men's health conference. Women have been excluding men from their get- togethers for 30 years, with the excuse that including men would be unfriendly to women.

Women have enjoyed unfettered inclusion to conferences on issues concerning males, with the effect that men have made zero progress compared with the positive effect of the closed-shop environment adopted by women's organisations.

The Women's Affairs Ministry has led the field in recommending discrimination, exclusion and sexism, a result of which has been a male suicide ratio four times that of women. For women to take umbrage at their exclusion demonstrates the arrogance and total lack of empathy that masquerades as equality in feminist New Zealand.

The infiltration of women into men's affairs, with the collusion of a department dedicated to scuttling any attempt by men to extricate themselves from their oppressed state, smacks of inherent double standards.

No surprises there.

RIKK MORGAN

Whangarei

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